Top 100 We Often Quotes
#1. We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the leading women's rights advocates gained experience as organizers and lecturers.
Manisha Sinha
#2. Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#4. We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.
Tim O'Reilly
#5. Too often the word 'prayer' induces guilt because we don't do enough of it. After all, I've never met anyone who said they pray too much! All of us fall short. And we often feel like our prayers fall flat.
Mark Batterson
#6. We often concentrate on the negative side of the humanity, but humanity is growing, maturing every day, and to sign the song of a better future.
Debasish Mridha
#7. We often just accept the things that we like, and complain a lot about the things that we don't like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life; I think that would be fantastic.
Hank Green
#8. What happens when we're willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad - but without the stress of futile avoidance. Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests, and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes parts of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined.
Martha Beck
#9. Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
Gloria Steinem
#10. Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too.
Mitch Albom
#11. We saw our friends die. But we also see our friends live. So many of them live, and we often toast their long and full lives. They carry us on.
David Levithan
#12. Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#13. We often have very little empathy for our own thoughts and feelings and frequently try to suppress them by dismissing them as weaknesses.
Mark Williams
#14. Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature - a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.
Ashim Shanker
#15. We often assume that if we are good people we will not suffer the ills of the world.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#16. We often discover only many years later whether life and the stars were smiling upon us or not. Life can take the most surprising turns. What
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#17. We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough ... You're worthy because you are born and because you are here. Your being here, your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.
Oprah Winfrey
#18. We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to think about how each person will live there; you can't just think about abstract ideas.
Daniel Libeskind
#19. Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.
William P. Young
#20. We often participate in a war only to lose our hearts and to gain a few pieces of land.
Debasish Mridha
#21. I hope we win the game tonight." "I hope I pass my final tomorrow." We often use the word hope as a wish for something to happen. But hope in God is something far deeper. It's knowing that he's in control, that he loves us, and that our future is secure in him.
Max Lucado
#22. I have coaching friends, and when we get together, we often talk more about what we're doing to get players' attention than we do about the fascinating X's and O's of our sport.
Tony La Russa
#23. Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
Gary Hamel
#24. In our quest for short-term returns, or results, we often ruin a prized physical asset - a car, a computer, a washer or dryer, even our body or our environment. Keeping P and PC in balance makes a tremendous difference in the effective use of physical assets.
Stephen R. Covey
#25. Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.
Craig Groeschel
#26. Each of us has an innate, human desire to be challenged. We are driven by it, and we often learn from our experiences to set a target and hit it. Even if we don't reach our intended goal or destination, we gain strength in trying.
Michelle McCullough
#27. We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Marian Wright Edelman
#28. We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
Baltasar Gracian
#29. We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers - a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#30. The poor are no less rational than anyone else - quite the contrary. Precisely because they have so little, we often find them putting much careful thought into their choices:They have to be sophisticated economists just to survive.
Abhijit V. Banerjee
#31. We often become mentally and spiritually barren because we're so busy.
Franklin Graham
#32. The word"boundaries" often relates directly to the word fear. In other words, we often limit ourselves from going beyond the"norm" because we think of it as being"risky" or because we're afraid of failure. It's easy to settle for average or normal. That's why the majority of us do!
Michael Harris
#33. Meg gagged. "I hate bugs."
That made sense for a daughter of the agriculture goddess, but to me the dead ant didn't seem any grosser than the piles of garbage in which we often swam.
Rick Riordan
#34. May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.
Lewis Carroll
#35. As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully.
Anthony Browne
#36. As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.
Pearl Cleage
#37. In business we often find that the winning system goes almost ridiculously far in maximizing and or minimizing one or a few variables - like the discount warehouses of Costco.
Charlie Munger
#38. While making love, we often talk about money. I like it. I like that dirty talk
Martin Amis
#39. Comfort and power can become great enemies of true spirituality, which explains why we often say that the prophets come not only to comfort the afflicted, but also to afflict the comfortable.
Brian D. McLaren
#40. The reason why we often get poor advice is that it's hard to find a person who always has our best interest at heart, isn't envious in any way, and at no level thinks he knows what's best for you.
David J. Lieberman
#42. On 'Glee,' we often tackle the tough topics that young people face - in fact, my recurring character, Wade 'Unique' Adams, is a transgender teenager who finds herself navigating a lot of the same problems many young people face around the globe.
Alex Newell
#44. We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. We often assume that the question, "How can I be happy?" can be successfully answered without reference to the love of God and our neighbors. And the irony is that if our biggest question is our own happiness, we can never know the God in whom we find our ultimate joy and rest.
Michael S. Horton
#46. It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play - the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and purpose of life - its facility, its use.
William H Gass
#47. We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#48. We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction
Aesop
#49. We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#50. By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
[Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]
Pierre Corneille
#51. In life, we often have to make decisions that aren't easy. But it doesn't mean they aren't right.
Abbi Glines
#52. We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves.
Katherine Boo
#53. As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.
Adora Svitak
#54. We often miss hearing God's voice simply because we aren't paying attention.
Rick Warren
#55. At Starbucks 0 as in any business, in any life - there are so many hectic moments during the day when we are simply trying to do the job, trying to put out the fires, trying to solve any number of small problems, that we often lose sight of what it is we're really here to do.
Howard Schultz
#56. If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain of this: for all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean- 'spaceship.'
Arthur C. Clarke
#57. We often take for granted those familiar faces and places, the repetitive nature of something once new, excitement wanes. To capture that early moment and hold onto it for all our days, true bliss. Looking at the old in in a different way, making it new once again.
Jonathan P. Lamas
#58. When we're trying to form and keep habits, we often search - even unconsciously - for loopholes. We look for justifications that will excuse us from keeping this particular habit in this particular situation.
Gretchen Rubin
#59. God does not change, but He uses change - to change us. He sends us on journeys that bring us to the end of ourselves. We often feel out of control, yet if we embrace His leading, we may find ourselves on the ride of our lives.
Jen Hatmaker
#60. We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.
Samuel Johnson
#61. We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.
Napoleon Hill
#62. Let us express our gratitude to those people who make our journeys in life beautiful, easy, and interesting. They are the angels of Eden whom we often forget to appreciate.
Debasish Mridha
#63. Stretch targets energize. We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when we don't quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done.
Jack Welch
#64. We often try to solve problems by creating more problems.
Debasish Mridha
#66. We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
Alan Lightman
#67. We often hear people talk about the concept of 'uberization,' where a new technology completely turns an industry on its head and forces us to rethink the way things have always been done. No industry will remain untouched by these forces.
Klaus Schwab
#68. We often find ourselves at ease with that with which we are most familiar, regardless of whether or not the trait serves us well in the end. Is that not yet another example of how we enslave ourselves?
Andrew Levkoff
#69. Is it not strange that while we have an opportunity to choose Positive over Negative,Joy over Sorrow,we often choose the latter?-RVM
R.v.m.
#70. We often think that language mirrors the world in which we live, and I find that's not true. The language actually makes the world in which we live. Language is not - I mean, things don't have any mutable value by themselves; we ascribe them a value.
Chris Abani
#71. I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.
Kate Christensen
#72. Women are wonderfully practical,' murmured Lord Henry, 'much more practical than we are. In situations of that kind we often forget to say anything about marriage, and they always remind us.
Oscar Wilde
#73. I want to keep pushing my boundaries. One of the biggest things I learned from 'Unbroken' is that you can go a lot further than you think you can. We often underestimate our actual capabilities.
Finn Wittrock
#74. We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal were so powerful that they signed a set of treaties literally dividing up the globe between them.
Max Fisher
#75. We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#76. New Year's Resolutions come and go. Some we keep, some we don't. In order to make lasting changes in our lives, we must first change our minds. We sometimes forget, and we often feel stuck, but we all have the power to do so.
Elizabeth Thornton
#77. I think we often hold heroines to an absurd standard. Be brave! Be wise! Always know what's in your heart and speak the truth of it! No and no and no. We fight to be brave. We learn to be wise. We struggle to know ourselves and voice what we want.
Leigh Bardugo
#78. But because of this, in many ways obesity is also the ultimate scapegoat - the villain we can easily blame when there's anything wrong going on in the body. And we often blame obesity as the prime suspect even when it's a mere consequence of other problems going on in the body.
Carl J. Lavie
#80. Life is beautiful, but we often forget and decorate it with ugliness.
Debasish Mridha
#81. We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
Neil Gaiman
#82. It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing everything on which we have based our daily activities. For when a goal is superimposed on an activity instead of evolving out of it, we often feel cheated when we reach it.
Viola Spolin
#83. Humans are...extraordinary. It's a shame that we often forget that, and that we treat each other as anything less than the masterpieces we are.
Christina Daley
#84. We often need to be refreshed.
Rumi
#85. We often think that earth is the ground where our houses are built; but scientifically saying, space is the ground and earth is the house built on that ground!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#86. What does it mean for something to be natural? When we say that something is "natural", what we often actually mean is that it is widely accepted or practiced, whereas something that is "unnatural" is foreign or strange to us.
Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
#87. When we write from the inside out rather than the outside in, when we write about what most concerns us rather than about what we feel might sell, we often write so well and so persuasively that the market responds to our efforts.
Julia Cameron
#88. Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.
Mark Buchanan
#89. When it comes to ourselves, we often have a blind spot. That is, we fail to see ourselves as others see us. We fail to recognize our most obvious traits: our strengths, weaknesses, mannerisms.
Mark Link
#90. We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.
John Searle
#91. It is not something we often find out; but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#93. We often commit foolish mistakes in trying to be smart
Siddharth Joshi
#94. When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with them. The readiness to believe evil about others is in large part ammunition for a thousand scandals in our own hearts.
Fulton J. Sheen
#95. We often fear to say what is true. Our tongues are tied by the beliefs of the society.
Debasish Mridha
#96. When we neglect our Bible study we often feel guilty. When you skip a meal do you feel guilty? No, you feel hungry. The Bible is food for our soul. When we fail to read it we should not feel guilty, we should feel hungry. Guilt is fueled by obligation hunger is fueled by desire.
Tyler Edwards
#97. We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.
Bell Hooks
#98. When we complain, we often project onto others the dissatisfaction of how we're dealing with our own lives.
P. M. Forni
#99. What we fear too much we often bring to pass.
Dean Koontz
#100. We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving as the object of our need for security.
Stanton Peele
